Wandering with no clear destination

7:09 AM,
Jul. 27, 2012

Written by

Bill Goodykoontz
| Gannett

Gather a genuinely talented comic team and give them a sloppy, lazy script to work with and what do you get?

"The Watch," basically. If you want a descriptive term, "disappointment" should cover it. There are some laughs, certainly - put Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill, Vince Vaughn and Richard Ayoade together and just let them go (which seems like what happens about half the time) and you're bound to get something funny every now and then.

But Akiva Schaffer's film doesn't have enough laughs, or enough story, to maintain any sort of consistent momentum. Instead it meanders through subplots and ...